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points by GodelNumbering 8 hours ago | 0 comments

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard

Good startup advice. Good life advice.

"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"

[–] malfist 7 hours ago

This is becoming a speech

You're the captain sir, you're entitled

Hmmm, I'm entitied to ramble on about something everyone knows

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise

Make make make make it so

[–] tfvlrue 2 hours ago

He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.

[–] fennec-posix 6 hours ago

oooh that just took me back. Remember blasting this in a friends car on a road-trip.

[–] poopingatwork 4 hours ago

Dark Materia - Picard Song.mp3

[–] unethical_ban 7 hours ago

It's meme-y, but if you know, you know. Whenever I see or even watch the line, I instantly hear the Picard Song.

[–] malfist 7 hours ago

When I rewatch TNG those lines always stick out because of the song

[–] RobotToaster 7 hours ago

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

[–] card_zero 7 hours ago

Well now I just want The Picard Song ... ah, here it is. https://archive.org/details/darkmateria_picard

[–] IncreasePosts 7 hours ago

"I've seen everything" - Patrick Stewart.

Good life advice as well

[–] mgdm 7 hours ago

Amazing he managed to see the documentary so long before it was filmed

[–] willis936 4 hours ago

"Why has everything become a something or a whatever?"

- Patrick Stewart breaking character

[–] archimedes237 5 hours ago

I say this all the time since I got it from the show. RIP The GOAT.

[–] Fricken 4 hours ago

Of course, for Captain Picard life was one of winning relentlessly against impossible odds on a weekly basis.

[–] jansan 7 hours ago

Na, if you do a startup and commit no mistakes, you did not work hard enough. Mistakes are part of an entrepreneur's journey.

[–] dsiegel2275 5 hours ago

I think the original quote points to something else - success in many walks of life is due to things outside of our control

[–] hlynurd 7 hours ago

So no mistakes is the mistake?

[–] tz18 6 hours ago

Tapestry (Season 6, Episode 15)

[–] solatic 7 hours ago

The mistake is believing that you can make no mistakes. Either you make a mistake by taking too long to polish everything to a blinding sheen, or you ship at a reasonable frequency and sometimes make mistakes in what you ship.